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Jennn
Jennn

Reputation: 81

What does the link rel="index" thing do?

Like this:

<link rel='index' title='mysite' href='http://mysite.com/' />

It appears inside all pages of the website.

I hope it doesn't tell google not to index that page :|

Also there's a

<link rel='canonical' title='mysite' href='http://mysite.com/' />

What is that for?

Upvotes: 8

Views: 9543

Answers (2)

Quentin
Quentin

Reputation: 943510

<link rel='index' title='mysite' href='http://mysite.com/' />

It states that the linked document provides an index for the current document … which probably isn't true.

<link rel='canonical' title='mysite' href='http://mysite.com/' />

It states that http://mysite.com/ is the same page as the current document, and that the proper URL to use is http://mysite.com/.

Upvotes: 8

Ray Toal
Ray Toal

Reputation: 88378

The rel attribute on the link element just says "there is this other document, whose url is the value of the href attribute, that is related to the current document.

There are many kinds of values used for rel, the most common of which is stylesheet. In the case of "index" it means this other document somehow indexes this document.

There is a list of common rel values, on of all places, w3schools (http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/att_link_rel.asp). (I'm not a fan of w3schools but I thought you might like to see the list of rel values they provided.)

Here is information on Google and rel=canonical: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=139394

Upvotes: 1

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